Lost Roots: Family, Identity, and Abandoned Ancestry - Brossura

Loewe, Karl Von

 
9781639883424: Lost Roots: Family, Identity, and Abandoned Ancestry
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1639883428 ISBN 13: 9781639883424
Casa editrice: Atmosphere Press, 2022

Sinossi

How twentieth-century junk science and tribalism defined a family's identity and falsified their origins story.


A soldier goes missing two days before the Armistice ends World War I. A decorated pilot encrypts his account of a failed diamond deal. A national police officer is executed on Stalin's order. An industrialist loses everything, first in part to the Nazis, then totally to the Communists. A shopkeeper is arrested by the Gestapo and both he and his wife spend years in a forced labor camp and their sons are put in foster care. A civil servant hires a genealogist to prove German ancestry, changes his birth record, and dies in the rubble of the Third Reich. These brothers sought - with mixed results - to survive a half-century of virulent nativism, war, revolution, occupation, and repression as citizens of three different countries: Germany, Poland, and America.


In Lost Roots: Family, Identity, and Abandoned Ancestry, Karl von Loewe reveals how a single family was affected by rampant ethnic nationalism of the time---how each used it and was used by it---and how the secrets were kept.


Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
Atmosphere Press
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1639883428
ISBN 13 
9781639883424
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
210
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Germania